"Help! I've Been Subpoenaed! What Do I Do?" By Earle F. Kyle IV and Gerald B. Lefcourt, ACCA Docket October 2002

Letter to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed changes to procedures in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and National Association of Federal Defenders as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent. 

NACDL President Drew Findling's letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos regarding proposed regulations for campus hearings pursuant to Title IX funding, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance Docket No. ED-2018-OCR-0064.

Comments to the Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure regarding proposed amendments to Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

NACDL President Lisa Wayne's comments to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy regarding a proposed rule that would allow states to limit federal review of capital post-conviction cases.

NACDL President Jim Lavine's comments to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy regarding a proposed rule that would allow states to limit federal review of capital post-conviction cases.

E.G. Morris discusses the current state of the bail system. He believes that pretrial release conditions requiring financial conditions must be used as a last resort. An accused should be released on personal recognizance unless an evidence-based determination is made that the individual presents a flight risk or imminent physical harm to others.

Pretrial detention for people who don't need to be detained is foolish and financially wasteful. Through NACDL's Pretrial Release Advocacy Project, NACDL will develop and distribute legal and practical resources so that current knowledge is accessible to practitioners to aid in challenging pretrial detention and bail determinations.

When a college student has been accused of a campus sexual assault, what adjudication procedures should the school follow? Cases challenging administrative expulsions from school are now percolating into state and federal courts, and courts are finding the treatment of the accused appalling. And what are the implications of “yes means yes” laws?

Promoted as a method to combat inherent bias in the criminal justice system, risk assessment instruments are being adopted around the country at the pretrial and parole phases. While advocates claim that risk assessment algorithms can reduce the impact of bias in the criminal justice system, opponents caution otherwise.

The authors proclaim that it is time to get back to the original premise of In re Gault and Fourteenth Amendment protections. They argue that the same reasoning courts have applied to postconviction proceedings must be applied at the trial level: Children are fundamentally different from adults, and these differences require enhanced procedural protections at all phases of prosecution — in delinquency court as well as in cases that are transferred to the adult system.

President Gerry Morris's letter to the House Financial Services Committee regarding procedural changes to administrative proceedings with the Securities Exchange Commission as proposed in the Due Process Restoration Act of 2015 (H.R. 3798).

Letter from members of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights to members of the Senate regarding fair-chance hiring practices that include banning the box asking about prior convictions on an initial job application, as addressed in the Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2015 (S. 2021).

Executive Director Norman Reimer's letter to President Barack Obama regarding fair-chance hiring practices that include banning the box asking about prior convictions on an initial job application.